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The Brilliant Skinny Salad Trick

When is a salad not a healthy salad? When it's swimming in high-fat, cream dressing, of course. But if you love decadent salad dressings (ranch, anyone?), you might try this little trick that Vitamin G reader Colleen swears by ...

"I love creamy salad dressings, but the full fat [types] are way unhealthy and the low-fat versions don't cut it for me," she says. "Today as an experiment, I mixed 1 T ranch dressing with 2 T salsa, and it made an amazing creamy salsa-ranch sauce! It made the salad dressing go further, and gave my salad another kicky veggie boost."

Thanks Colleen!

Smart trick, huh? This resonated with me because I'm on a huge salsa kick right now (favorite thing to do these days is to dip carrots or red pepper slices in salsa! Yum!).